Wow! I've had some very interesting experiences since I've been here in Taiwan! Teaching English to children, teaching English to university students, presenting medals at an athletic award ceremony, traveling on a boat where I feared for my life, riding on a couple of 3-hour train rides standing up or sitting on the floor, having complete strangers asking to take their pictures with us, giving a 20-minute presentation about BYU in front of 60 university students. I could literally go on and on, but I will stop and talk about the last one.
So you see that sign that we're holding?! Of course you do. Well that sign was for us. Yeah, we had posters made for us to inform the students of our presentations. Karyn, Kailey, Liz, and I all gave 20 minute presentations about the universities we attend or attended. Let's just say our schools should be happy for the good word we put in for them :)
I was first! I was going to be second, but we had some technical difficulties and I ended up going first. Sadly, I had no internet connection and I had some awesome videos I really wanted to show. But it's all good! I had a slideshow with quite a few pictures and I just talked and sang a little bit too.
Yes I sang a cappella in front of this crowd. I was scared, but I did it. I sang the Cougar Fight Song and they loved it. I was way off key and shaky, but they liked it. They were clapping with the beat and cheering for me at the end. (Apparently the universities here don't have fight songs and so they were way excited to hear one.) At the end of the presentation, they shouted for an encore of the fight song. So I sang it again.
I just love this picture because of all of our eyes in this picture. We look like we're robots ready to destroy the classroom.
I was so nervous giving this presentation. I know I was talking really fast at times and that my voice was shaky too, but it's over. It IS over.
The audience!
More of the audience! This might have been while I was speaking. I'm not sure though.
Since the internet was not working in the other room, we changed to this room for the other presentations. I put this picture up because Grace is in this picture (she's the one smiling in the front). I talked about Grace in my last post. She's the one who got Karyn, Kailey, Liz and I to present the medals at the award ceremony at the track and field event. Grace is awesome! She speaks English very well and she is so nice.
This was at the end for the Q&A session!
Kailey, me, Liz, and Karyn! What an experience!
3 comments:
I wish I could have been there for you singing the Cougar fight song in front of the whole group. In any case, you totally rock!!!!
Did they ask you any questions about BYU? Too bad about no internet connection.
Like Lara, I would have loved to have been there for your presentation. Of course, I would have probably jumped in and helped you sing the Cougar Fight song.
Let me just make an observation about you: this is certainly not my sweet shy little girl that grew up here. But, a beautiful and confident young woman that has grown up amazingly over the past several years in Ukraine, at BYU, and now in Taiwan.
You can do anything that you want to do I have no doubt!!
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